Swing or bungy?
10 September 2017
08.09.17
After breakfast 🍳 we went to Murupara school to to give a 'koha' of the food that we put aside from our evening meal last night, ( this is a nice tradition and made me feel good). When we arrived the children performed the Hakka which was very emotional and uplifting. Then whilst we were there we spent almost an hour playing games and doing all sorts of drawings. The next stop was a bit of a quickie to the Huka falls, they drop by may be 20 metres over a length of about 250 metres so not too steep but when 20 swimming pools a minute empties out of the other end it is a great sight and very noisy. Before lunch I did another one of my bucket list, I then actually extended the list. First of all I did the Taupo Cliff Hanger extreme swing over the huge Waikato river, 45 metre drop then the swing, after that, within 10 minutes I did New Zealand's highest water touch Bungy jump over the same river. It was an experience that I have now done and I enjoyed it a lot, but I must say i didn't feel any anxiety at all. Doing it did not give me the thrill of a lifetime, the swing was the better of the two drops. Sometime later Ninja had to phone our next destination Whakahoro because it is so far off the beaten track (gravel track) that if we don't turn up within 2 hours they come out to find us. Our evening meal was minced wild boar with a touch of chilli 🌶